B.C. LUMBER WORKER

wt does “safety-conscious”
mean?

Doés it mean you have to be
scared of your shadow? Does it
mean you have to keep constantly
repeating over in your mind ail
the big and little facts and rules
and tips about working safely?
Does it mean you have to go
through life muttering to your-
self, “I must be safe”?

No! _

Well, how about these for a
few brass tacks to get down to:

1. Being safety - conscious
means knowing as much as you
ean learn about how to do any
job you can tackle the safe way.
It doesn’t mean you've got to be
a super-know-it-all. You wouldn’t
be very popular with the other
guys if you told them how to do
their jobs.

2. “Safety - conscious” means
also passing along any particular
ideas you might have for making
your job safer. Your employers
will appreciate that, for they
want your work to be as safe as
possible for you and as efficient
as possible for them. And they
know from experience that sound
ideas come from men on the job.

8. ‘Safety - conscious” means
reporting promptly any hazards
you may spot anywhere in the
plant. That’s plain fair play
with the people you work for
and the ones you work with.

Anytime you get weary of
safety talk, just think a little bit
about what “‘safety-conscious”
actually means.

Bill Gray
At Sweeney’s

Secretary of the IWA District
Safety Council, William Gray,
and a representative of the Work-
men’s Compensation Board were
heard at the first meeting of 2°
joint safety committee in the mill

section of Sweeney’s Cooperage, |.

Vancouver, recently.

The IWA representative out-
lined the safety program of the
Union and the striking results
achieved through the work of job
safety committees.

At the conclusion of the meet-
ing a vote of thanks was extend-
ed to the speakers, and assurance
given that safety would in future
receive the vigilant attention of
committee members.

Not Machines

“Relations between the com-
pany and the workers have an
important bearing on accident
prevention.

“Where the feeling of being
driven like a machine replaces
interest in work, the working
conditions become bad and acci-
dents can occur much more
easily.

“The worker can only do his
best when his heart is in his
work, and when he can be proud
of belonging to the company and
Knows that his work ,contributes
to the success of the undertaking
as a whole.”

* —Werner Reist, Zurich, in ILO
Safety Survey. :

After a bad fall, a man reported:
“I thought I had broken a shoulder
but I found that I had only pulled
a liniment.”

[trieal outlet in the glue loft was

Open letter to IWA members in the Interior.

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

well done.

portant job for each and every

conditions,

today, tomorrow or next week,

abled? What is the answer?

Active, Alert and Determined.

‘The answer is in_your hands.
The Workmen’s Compensation
Act says that these committees
must be set up. Your contract
says they must be set up. Your
job is to see that they are set up
and that they meet monthly and
function.

If the employer refuses to co-
operate, notify your Local Union
and the District Safety Council. |
I can assure you that the entire |
weight of Ditsrict No. 1 will be |
thrown in behind you. |

‘The coast has still a long way |
to go in accident prevention, but |
the interior has still farther to
go. We want to see the “hay-

Secretary, IWA District Sai

T have heard various reports from the Interior this summer
both prior to and after negotiations.

However, having gotten your contract there is still an im-

setting up of Accident Prevention Committees in each mill and
camp. Our Union's goal is better wages, hours and working
Safety is one of the most important conditions.
What good is a dollar a day increase to you if you are killed

SAFETY NEGLECTED
EAST OF CASCADES

By W. GRAY

Congratulations on a job

one of you to do,, that is, the

or if you are permanently dis-
— Job Safety Committees —

wire” equipment done away with.
We want proper and adequate
First Aid equipment and service
for every worker. We want the
Accident Prevention Regulations
lived up to by all concerned.

To us the man is worth just as
much to the community whether
he is working on the coast or in
the interior. He can suffer just
as much from an injury no mat-
ter where he is, or what nation-
ality or what color he may
happen to be.

So let’s all put our shoulders
to the wheel and start on this
job. If you run across employers

HAZARDS PI
BY MILL. CO

available. :
Each plant has its own prob-|
lems, but in the main the pro-|
cedure followed by safety com- |
mittees has developed a pattern |
which has enabled committee |
members to gain a grasp of acci-
dent prevention requirements. |

In this issue we publish in part |
the minutes of a meeting of the
joint safety committee in the
Vancouver Plywood Division of |
H.R. MacMillan Export Co. Ltd.,
held on October 11.

Nineteen members were in at-
tendance. Of this number, nine
were IWA members. The com-
mittee transacted the following
business:

Accidents Reported
September, 1950

Sliver and infection middle
right finger, returned in one day;
bruised left knee, returned in two
days; possible strain right wrist,
returned in two days; laceration
left middle finger, returned in
three days; steel sliver in left
eyeball, no time lost; bruised
right little finger, no time lost;
strained right shoulder, returned
in five days; total, 13 days.

Accidents Reported
Previously

Deeply embedded sliver right
thumb, 20 days, still away; total,
33 days.

New Business

1. Reported that cover over No.
3 dryer steam trap is unsafe. _

2. Requested that trap door at
hog operators position be investi-
gated with regard to improve-
ment or moving to another posi-
tion.

8. Suggested that a 4”x 4” be
permanently placed on the floor
outside the foremen’s office to
prevent dollies from hitting the
wall and breaking windows.

4. Reported that floor on dis-
charge side of Cold Press in need
of repair.

5. Reported that door loads are
being piled too high in the door
warehouse, making it difficult for
bundlers to reach,

6. The improper use of an elec-

discussed—signs are being pre-
pared giving instructions for safe

GENERAL agreement prevails throughout the lumber indus-

try among those who interest themselves in accident pre-
vention that an effective safety program mainly depends on the
yigilance of the joint safety committees on the job. |
inyariably, active and efficient safety committees have found it |
possible to reduce the accident frequency rate.

As the experience gained in one plant may be helpful to
safety men in other plants, the custom has been followed of
publishing the minutes of safety committees

N-POINTED
MMITTEE

Almost

when made

and proper use.

7. Guard rail on the sidewalk
opposite B.C.E.R. tracks in need
of repair.

8, Investigate report that No.
6 dryer feeders are throwing
veneer into conveyors in such a
manner as to cause a hazard to
the cleanup man under the mill.

9. New Tuf Tex required at
sheet turners position of No. 5
spreader.

10. Reported that % patch cut-
ters new position is hazardous
and requested that this condition
be changed as early as possible.

11. No. 2 loading door ramp is
in need of repair or renewal.

12. It is again requested that
pedestrians, when leaving the
time clocks to go to the tram,
should use the side walks and
avoid the roads.

12. The question of employees
knowing their correct fire station
was raised and after considerable
discussion, S. Dickson stated he
would take up the matter with
the fire warden.

General

D. W.-C, MacBean gave results
of sight screener. tests recently
conducted at Victoria Lumber
Division, and it was found that
one out of four employees tested
required either glasses or were
in need of medical attention.

‘SCOTTY’ ALLISON
HONORED

Mr. W. M. “Scotty” Allison,
Safety Director of the B.C. Lum-
ber Manufacturers’ Association,
has been honored with admission
to the Order of St. John of
Jerusalem, as a pioneer worker
for St. John Ambulance Brigade.

The honor, granted under the
approval of the King, is in recog-
nition of his work in the cause of
accident prevention and promo-
tion of first aid in British
Columbia,

Mr, Allison was overseas wi
the 16th General Hospital, and
on his return joined the safety
department of the B.C.L.M.A. He

has helped promote safety pro- | following the safety

grams in many operations in this |
province. t

fety Council

work accident trouble more often
than any other part of the body..

mates that fingers and thumbs
sustain about 350,000 disabling
injuries each year,
about 170,000 disabling

half of all hand-finger injury
are sustained while handliny or.

jects or operating

Ave hamecrees
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th | this to them: “Pals,
earn a living, and I’m

ifingers

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who refuse to co-operate let your
Local Union know. If they need
assistance the District Council
or District Executive with the
assistance of the District Safety
Council will be able to assist you.
I know these boys and I know
that they know the answers.

To date this year there have
been too many men killed in log-
ging east of the Cascades—men
that should not have been killed,
bread-winners taken from their
families. Ask some of these
widows how they live on $50.00 a
month with $12.50 for each child.
Even if they got four times that,
they would still want their hus-
bands and fathers with them. No
amount of money replaces that
loss. It is up to each one of us
to do our bit in preventing the
horrible toll of killed and maimed
in our industry.

There are still a large number
of camps and mills in the coast
area that can also pull up their
socks in the matter of active
Safety Committees.

Let’s make our slogan for 1951
—“An Active Alert Accident
Prevention Committee in every
operation where the IWA holds
certification.”

Handicapped

Hold Bazaar
November 9

The newly - chartered Co-
operative Society of Visually
Handicapped, which was estab-
lished to enable those ham-
pered by lack of eyesight to
become self - supporting
through an enterprise owned
and operated by themselves,
will hold a unique bazaar and
dance on Thursday, November
9, in the Steelworkers’ Hall,
at 10th and Main.

‘The bazaar will be opened at
2:30 by Alderman Anna Sprott
and will feature the sale of
articles made by sightless people
in various parts of Canada and
a special display from the Civi-
lian Handicapped Workshop at
Moose Jaw, Sask., which has pro-
vided employment for people so
severely handicapped that they
never worked before.

Music for the dance, which be-
gins at 9 p.m, will be provided
by the Vics Co-op Orchestra, in-
cluding blind musicians, Spot
dances and other contests will be
staged.

Those of us who are blessed
with sight can help less fortunate
people to help themselves by pat-
ronizing this affair.

Contentedly Jane and John Doe
Watched their life savings grow.
But one swift accident
Now has spoiled their content—
And it took all of Jane and John’s
dough.

WHOLE HANDS

Fingers and hands get into
National Safety Council esti-

and hands
injuries.
Indications are that more than

handling ob-}
machinery,

Take a good look at your own
ten fingers and
something like
you help me

i Gonna d
right by you and keep you out

of trouble by being careful and}
Tules,” 1
just cross your

It won’t help to
for luck.

The above
policy. It is easy
It is displayed in
where Bell System

BUT safety is a p
assure the worker's saf
of working safely.

If safety is a perso
on individual action.
policy—personal creed,

Are you concerned

Do you believe that’

Are you trusting to]
yourself? 4

DO YOUR THIN:
A SECOND

WORKMEN'S 00;

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ADAM BELL, Chairman
F, P, ARCHIBALD, Secretary

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